BenTheFox

Ipswich are good but Norwich are shocking.

Ipswich look much better than Norwich.

Leeds being on the same points tally as Burnley should come as a warning shot. Burnley finished on 101 points. Leeds will need to pick up to match that, but they are capable of putting a serious run together.

I don't think it's that outrageous of a statement. In terms of football ability you would probably have one or two more Villa players if you did a combined 11. However, our best players from that season are head and shoulders above their best players. Also, the team spirit and resilience of our title winners was unlike anything seen in team sport.

Our more limited players i.e. Simpson, Okazaki, Albrighton etc. wouldn't get anywhere near this Villa side but at the same time they don't have anyone who is at the level of Kante, Mahrez or Vardy.

What I will say that stylistically he's starting to look more like a modern day Tony Pulis. Lots of longballs, dirty fouls and long throws. It's not long ago that he was considered a very forward thinking manager but the football Forest are playing is very one dimensional. I think he will have enough to keep them up but they nay want to look elsewhere in the summer if they seriously want to progress.

I'm not sure how much of a hand Steve Cooper had in all of those signings. I think they will stay up this season, but it feels like it's built on sand.

Forest play like an upmarket pub team. You really should expect more for a team that has had a lot of money thrown at it.

I have to push back against the idea that Ipswich are a "small club". In their history they have won a league title, an FA cup and what is now known as the Europa League (not in the too distant past either. These trophies were won in the 60s, 70s and 80s). Those trophies were won under two of the best managers this country has ever produced. They also fill a stadium that is bigger that holds more than a handful of premier league grounds too. I praise them for how well they are doing based on being a newly promoted side who don't have the wage bill or spent as much on transfer fees as ourselves, Southampton or Leeds, not that they are a "small club".

If Ipswich were going to drop off, it would have happened by now. They're here for the long run. If they go up automatically, especially if they do so with more than 95 points, McKenna should get manager if the season. You can't help but admire it really.

Sorry, but Leeds winning three games more than us out of the 26 remaining is certainly not insurmountable, especially when we still have to play them at Elland Road! Leeds have more points at this stage than Burnley did last season and this Leeds team in my opinion have better players.

I really don't know what to say if you found the football we played on Saturday to be boring. We scored four goals and could well have scored more!

Come on. The amount of empty seats at full time on Saturday was a disgrace.

We have the worst fans in the country.

Well if they were born after 1996 when Frank Clark was their manager, then he unquestionably is. If they're under age of 30, then he's the best manager they'll be able to have any recollection of.

I've heard some rumours about what's going on at Forest. Apparently their players have had enough of Cooper. Their squad is well too big do there's of unhappy players not getting gametime and there are suggestions that he's been announcing the starting line-ups on the morning of the game via Whatsapp. They looked like they were trying to get rid of their manager last night.

Watching that, I think it becomes even more obvious that we could do wuth a number 9 who is good at coming a bit deeper and receiving the ball and acting more as a vocal point for us to play off. That's never been Vardy's natural game (despite being a better footballer than he's been given credit for throughout his career) and Iheanacho's link-up play really hasn't been good enough this year. I think we would be more effective going forward if we had that player.

They are two huge takeaways from this.

The championship table after round 17 last season. We have ten points more than Burnley at this stage! Leeds and Southampton would usually be the top 2 with their respective points returns. The fact that we have 42 points and there is a tean within 3 points of us us incredible. Got to give Ipswich a lot of credit.

This is the championship table after round 17 last season. We have ten points more than Burnley had at this stage. It really is testament to how well Ipswich have done that we are only 3 points clear at the top with 42 points.

Any tickets spares for this?

Not if Southampton win.

We were absolutely shithoused. Battered them second half and lost to a worldy out of nowhere. Actually fuming.

Think we're over complicating it. Wasting half the ****ing game passing the ball between our centre halves abd goalkeeper. Even when we've won games we've been boring to watch for the most part.

Genuinely think we might blow promotion playing like this.